Born February 19, 1930; full name: Armin Gotthard Uhlmann
EDUCATION:GRADUATION:
- 1936-1940:
- Primary school (Neukirchen)
- 1940-1948:
- Secondary school (Neukirchen and Chemnitz)
- 1949-1954:
- Student of Mathematics at the University of Leipzig; main teachers: Herbert Beckert and Erich Kähler
- 1954-1958:
- Research student in Mathematics; tutor: Erich Kähler
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
- 1954:
- Diploma in Mathematics, University of Leipzig. "Automorphe Funktionen von mehreren Veränderlichen" (Automorphic Functions of Several Variables). Tutor: Erich Kähler
- 1957:
- PhD thesis, University of Leipzig, Mathematical Institute.
"Normierte Divisorfunktionen" (Functions describing divisors).- 1960:
- Habilitation thesis, University of Leipzig.
"Über den Begriff der Energie bei gekrümmter Raum-Zeit-Mannigfaltigkeit" (On the concept of energy about curved space-time-manifolds).FURTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
- 1958-1960:
- Assistent at the University of Jena, Institute of Theoretical Physics.
- 1960-1961:
- Lecturer (Theoretical Physics) at the University of Leipzig
- 1962-1965:
- University professor (first level) for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig.
- 1965-1969:
- University professor (second level) for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig.
- 1969-1993:
- Full professor for Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig.
- 1993-1995:
- Research Position (DFG project "Quantum Dynamics")
MEMBERSHIPS:
- 1963-1965:
- Vice director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig.
- 1965-1967:
- Visiting professor at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, USSR.
- 1967-1969:
- Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig.
- 1970-1973:
- Director of the Department of Physics, Leipzig.
- 1973-1975:
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, USSR.
Head of the sector "Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory".- 1976-1986:
- Head of the section "Mathematical and Theoretical Basis of Physics" of the Physical Society of GDR. The section is now part of the German Physical Society.
- 1976-1985:
- Head of the "Center for Theoretical Natural Sciences (NTZ)", Leipzig.
- 1985-1993:
- Director of the "Interdisciplinary Seminar for Young Scientists", Leipzig.
CONFERENCES:
- 1970 resp. 1972-1993:
- Corresponding, resp. full member of the "German Academy of Sciences (1972-1990 "of GDR") at Berlin". (In 1994 the academy has been closed by the Senat of Berlin.)
- 1982:
- Full member of the "Saxonian Academy of Sciences at Leipzig".
- 1993:
- Member of the "Leibniz Society".
- 1970:
- Member of the Editorial Board of "Reports on Mathematical Physics".
- 1992:
- Member of the Editorial Board of "Open Systems and Information Dynamics".
- Member of the "German Physical Society" and the "International Union on Mathematical Physics".
- 1984:
- "XXII International Conference on High Energy Physics" in Leipzig, within the "Rochester Conference series". Codirector (University), together with K. Lanius (Academy of Sciences).
- 1991:
- "Xth International Congress on Mathematical Physics" of the IAMP in Leipzig. Head of the Local Organizing Committee, together with B. Geyer.
- 1977 and 1983:
- (together with H. Baumgärtel, G. Laßner, A. Pietsch) Ist and IInd Conference "Operator Algebras, Ideals, and their Applications in Theoretical Physics" in Leipzig.
- 1976-1991:
- With J. Lopuszanski (Wroclaw) I opened 1976 the Wroclaw-Leipzig Seminars on Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. In 1991 the seminar was transformed into the "Max-Born-Symposium". We have had 26 seminars, personally I was responsible for six.
- I was responsible (with B. Geyer and others) for 5 meetings "Probleme der Theoretischen Physik" of the Physical Society.